Joseph Cambre: HSCA Interview
Subject: Joseph Cambre : HSCA Interview
Date: 31 Dec 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <76ento$pui$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
AGENCY : HSCA
RECORD NUMBER : 1801007810371
AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 009263
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ORIGINATOR : HSCA
FROM : CAMBRE, JOSEPH
DATE : 06/08/78
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Summary of Contact:
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Mr. Cambre stated that he helped Russell Willie obtain Guy
Banister's records from Mary Banister and later he went thru these
records and also remembers them being destroyed along with many
other records due to orders attempting to comply with the Privacy
Act. Mr. Cambre was assigned to the records section of investigation
and intelligence within the State Police. He worked with the
Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission during 1970-1. Mr. Cambre went
through the records of Mr. Banister and noticed that many of the index
cards refered to files that were missing. Banister's files were kept
seperate from the general files. Mr. Cambre stated that they were
in a five drawer file cabinet but the cabinet was not full. Many of
the folders that were numbered were missing. Mr. Cambre believes
that Mary Banister mentioned that she had allowed the F.B.I. to
take what they wanted from the files before the State Police obtained
them. This seemed appropriate since Mr. Banister was a retired
F.B.I. Agent. Mr. Cambre couldn't remember the names of the files
but he remembered that they were of organizations and individuals
that would be considered liberal, or subversive or communist.
Mr. Banister had extensive records on the Southern Conference
Educational Fund. Many of the files were newspaper clippings,
that referred to something that Banister was interested in.
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Mr. Cambre remembers reading a file on the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee which was mostly news clippings. He also remembers a
transcript of Lee Harvey Oswald speaking to someone on the radio
about this organization. He can not remember a specific file on
Oswald or any of Oswald's associates. Mr. Cambre remembered that the
Fair Play for Cuba Committee had an address on Camp St. He was
surprised to learn that 544 Camp St. was the same building that
Mr. Banister had his office in. He couldn't [remember?] anything else
about the contents of the files at this time but will call back if he
thinks of anything new that might be of use.
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Mr. Cambre remembered that an investigator from Jim Garrison's
office came and took notes of the contents of the files and index
cards. He could not remember the name of the investigator but suggested
that Garrison might remember.
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The files were loaded into cartoon [sic] and bags in his presence
but he did not see them destroyed. He suggested that Ray W. Thomas
or Billy Joe Booth might know more about the actual destroying of the
files. Mr. Thomas works with a private detective agency in Baton
Rouge and Mr. Booth is an instructor at the Louisiana State University
in Baton Rouge.
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[end of interview]
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Jerry Shinley
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